Monday was the saddest day ever measured on Twitter, according to Hedonometer. News of Las Vegas shootings combined with political turbulence in Europe, protests in Britain and natural events meant that sentiment dropped to an all-time low at the start of the week. The reading was lower than the terrorist ...
A post on Australian gun control is going viral following the tragic shootings in Las Vegas. The Facebook picture refers to a mass shooting in 1996 which prompted politicians to introduce sweeping gun control measures. The government bought back and destroyed over 1 million guns and put in controls over ...
The Conservative party conference in Manchester has been under intense police security and subjected to large protests, but inside the ring of steel, Tory MPs are still mouthing off with their reactionary views. It was the turn of South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay to step up and make a statement ...
An American mass shooting expert says hotels are a soft touch for attacks like Vegas due to their lack of security. Professor Adam Winkler of UCLA is a gun law expert and has been cited in landmark Supreme Court cases, including opinions on the Second Amendment, the right to bear ...
The father of a cocktail waitress caught up in the Las Vegas massacre has told of the "bone-chilling" call he received from her as bullets rained down on her and her friends. Lexi Cheplak, 25, frantically dialled her dad Jon Cheplak at 10.17pm local time while in the audience of ...
Outspoken Katie Hopkins turned up to the Conservative Party Conference this morning in the wedding dress from her first marriage. The raucous attention seeker donned her wedding outfit to promote a conference fringe event to take place this afternoon on the subject of divorce. The panel is entitled Sex, Lies and Irreconcilable ...
When I was younger the only thing I ever looked forward to about going back to school, was the fact that I’d have a brand new backpack across my scrawny shoulders. Every September a new bag was purchased and a huge grin beamed across my ‘innocent’ face. Alas, those care-free ...
There’s been a lot of news reports recently about plans by President Trump’s administration to put a stop to the so-called ‘Dreamers Law’. Officially known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, the immigration policy championed by Barack Obama has protected nearly 800,000 young adults without documentation to ...
A postman was wrongly slapped with a £110 fine after parking his delivery van for ten minutes – while helping a little old lady cross the road. Kind postie David Welland, 31, helped an elderly resident while delivering letters on his route. But he was gobsmacked when a council fined ...